Red Gorgonia ID

[Psycho graphic]

I stopped at a store I go to when in central NJ tonight and the owner showed me some Red Gorgonias he got in. I asked if he would frag me an arm from one that had some bare spots for ten bucks, he cut me the largest one.:biggrin:

He was not sure exactly what it was, I think it was marked as just a Gorgonia.

I was wondering if anyone can Id this one, I have'nt found anything that looks like this one. It looks black under the actinics, but it is really red.

If this is any clue, even when cut, bagged, an hour ride home and 1/2hr temp acclimate, it never closed it's polyps.

My main concern, is it Photosynthetic or not?

 

[Domboski]

Cool! I haven;t the faintest idea but a start would be looking into the knobby sea rod family and see if anything similar pops up.

 

[reefman]

not Photosynthetic
need to be fed
general rule: only green & brown r photo

 

[Psycho graphic]

I have a purple that's photo.

 

[Domboski]

I have a purple that's photo.

Right. My rule is the larger polyps need to be fed. The smaller polyps are photo but also need to be fed on occasion

 

[Quang]

all the red types of gorgonias i know are non-photo.

especially if they look like this: